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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ball Ground, Georgia

Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Ball Ground — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ball Ground, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Ball Ground itself.

The rest sit in Canton (1).

1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

13 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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19
Reported cameras nearby
#146
of 346 Georgia cities tracked
0.2%
of Georgia’s reported cameras
Live camera map 19 reported cameras around Ball Ground, Georgia
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Ball Ground

No new reports near Ball Ground in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Ball Ground

The readers mapped around Ball Ground break down as 19 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Ball Ground Highway — 2 readers
  • A P D Highway — 2 readers
  • Airport Drive — 2 readers
  • Upper Burris Road — 1 reader
  • Flatbottom Road — 1 reader
  • Ball Ground Road — 1 reader
  • I 575;GA 5 — 1 reader
  • Lower Bethany Road — 1 reader
  • Hornage Road — 1 reader
  • East Cherokee Drive — 1 reader
  • Yellow Creek Road — 1 reader
  • Hightower Road — 1 reader

+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Ball Ground — all on the live map above.

Ball Ground in the Cherokee County picture

Cherokee County has 164 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #377 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.6% nationally. That’s across 274,539 residents and 1,575 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).

Camera activity around Ball Ground, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Ball Ground. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.

What’s watching Ball Ground

These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Ball Ground — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ball Ground (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Ball Ground

Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.

Cameras near Ball Ground

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).